Facebook accused  Apple of engaging in anticompetitive practices  amidst an ongoing standoff  between the two technology company’s  over Apple’s planned privacy changes for iOS14.

Apple is behaving anti competitively by using their control of the App Store to benefit their bottom line at the expense of creators and small businesses,” Facebook Vice President for Ads and Business Products Dan Levy told reporters.

In response, Apple said its new rules will not require Facebook to change its “approach to tracking users and creating targeted advertising” but instead requires Facebook to give users on Apple devices a choice of whether to opt in to those practices.

“We believe that this is a simple matter of standing up for our users. Users should know when their data is being collected and shared across other apps and websites — and they should have the choice to allow that or not,” Apple said in a statement.

The world’s biggest social media company ran full-page ads in major newspapers criticizing Apple’s plans, which will limit apps’ ability to gather data from people’s phones that can be used for targeted advertising.

It said in a blog post that Apple's own personalized ad platform would be exempt from the new prompt requirement the iPhone maker is planning to impose on other companies.

Facebook’s Dan Levy said that although Facebook disagreed with Apple’s approach, it would comply with the new rules and display a

prompt. “We don’t have a choice if we want our app to be available in the App Store,” he said.

Opposition against Apple continued to grow as Digital Content Next, a digital media trade association representing members such as The New York Times and The Washington Post, said it had joined the Coalition for App Fairness.

The nonprofit, which includes members like Epic Games and Spotify, is calling on regulators around the world to fight “anticompetitive” app store practices such as Apple’s 30% revenue cut on purchases made within apps.

Source- Reuters

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